Software RAID grub boot error on new xubuntu installation
 

Hi, I was reloading my linux box from scratch recently and decided to try software RAID 0 since I have two identical 75GB drives and figured this would provide a nice boost in read/write speeds. So, during the install I noticed an option to do software RAID and choose that route. I told the software to RAID 0 my two drives. Everything went fine with the install but as soon as I rebooted I'm getting this error.

error: failure reading sector 0xb30 from 'fd0'
error: disk 'mduuid/LONG#,1' not found.

I tried messing with some of the hard drive settings in BIOS but I can't get past this error. Any ideas how I might be able to fix this in grub or do I have to backout of software RAID 0?

I recall the Guided Partitioning did the following after setting up my software RAID0.
RAID 0 159 GB Auto partition suggestion>
#1 Primary 159.4 GB ext4
#5 logical 534.6 MB swap
SCSI1 80G K RAID
and
SCSI2 80G K RAID

I was really excited with the idea of doing software RAID so I'm hoping to get this fixed without reloading and going back to non-RAID. Thanks for any suggestions or ideas.

I'm hoping this might complete what's need to possibly fix my issue.
Exact Error>
error: failure reading sector 0xb30 from 'fd0'
error: disk 'mduuid/bbcb78f0:0c354275:884cd2c7:3039c061' not found.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue> _

Also I have a floppy since I'm pretty sure fd0 is the floppy so not sure what I get that error?

This is the specific drive or UUID I get the error on and it's my RAID0 id per mdadm -D /dev/md0 output.

UUID : bbcb78f0:0c354275:884cd2c7:3039c061

Here's some disk output I've gathered.
And
After searching on >
error reading sector 0xb30 from 'fd0'
and
/dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive

I came across a couple post. I'm currently booted up with a rescue CD and trying to see how I can reinstall grub. It seems like it should be on /dev/sda1 not /dev/sdb2 as it shows above.

I was thinking if I could somehow get to /etc/fstab I could remove or modify the fd0 parameter.

I was trying to follow this post but running into issues.
http://idolinux.blogspot.com/2009/07...er-on-md0.html

I can't seem to get the grub to load and my linux skills are way rusty right now. Appreciate any help!

The partitioning is not very reasonable.

/boot
swap
/(root)
/home
/var
/tmp

You should not use RAID 0, since one drive is defective, you loose your data.

It sounds like you installed Grub to the floppy drive? If this was not your intention you need to use proper command to install Grub.

Edit: Check out this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753643

I would say the floppy message is a red herring - the following message is likely the issue. Let's see the /boot/grub/grub.cfg (I think that's what Ubuntu name it).

Thanks for the replies. However, I'm going to try a reload tonight with floppy drive disabled.

Thought the boot-repair-disk utility fixed it but turns out I still have "issues".

boot-repair-utility output stating it fixed my GRUB after purging and reloading.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/23504650/

FYI, I ended up trying the Software RAID 0 setup again with the floppy disabled in BIOS. This time it gave me a different error and GRUB couldn't find the OS in the RAID partition. I tried running boot-repair-disk again and it purged GRUB and re-installed and said repaired successfully but it still didn't boot right and gave some GRUB mda error or something. Either way, I went back in with my recovery OS boot disk and created my partitions from scratch for / , /home & swap. Then, I booted up with X-ubuntu mini-CD and then I finally got it to load normally. Kind of a hassle for such a simple single OS boot system!

This is my old trusty PIII 600 with minimum RAM and a CD-ROM. So, I was pretty limited on my install media since I can't even boot from USB with this system. Hard to find ISO's that are under CD-ROM size nowadays! Either way, I'm glad to have my linux box back up and ready to start customizing!